Europe is trying to put pressure on Kiev

Special Envoys of the Federal German Chancellor Christof Heusgen, and of the French President, Jacques Audibert are in Ukraine to discuss the Minsk Agreement, in particular, a complete cease-fire and the release of prisoners. It is planned that they will visit Moscow too. Also, PACE rapporteur Michelle Nicoletti visits Ukraine to look at the depth and scope of corruption.

Double standards of Kiev

Recently, the armed forces of Ukraine and Nazi battalions committed numerous violations of the ceasefire agreement on the contact line with the Donetsk People Republic and the Lugansk People Republic. Meanwhile, Kiev is trying to shift all the responsibility onto the militias in the region, and also Russia.

Context

The difficult economic situation and internal social and political conflicts in Ukraine threaten to undermine not only the Minsk process, but escalate the conflict in other regions of the country.

The EU is also facing a number of problems and begins to understand that refusing to cooperate with Russia seriously harms European interests.

However, the pro-American lobby in Europe continues to hold onto its anti-Russian policy, which is contrary to the pragmatic interests of the whole of Europe. In particular, Poland insists on preventing the construction of the "Nord Stream-2" pipeline, which ultimately undermines the importance of Ukraine as a transit country for energy resources.
The US is trying to use the crisis in order to politically and economically subordinate Kiev to Washington.

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